Drew Karpyshyn

Drew Karpyshyn (born July 28, 1971) is a Canadian video game scenario writer, scriptwriter and novelist. He served as a senior writer for BioWare's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and lead writer for the first two Mass Effect video games. He left BioWare in 2012 to focus on his Chaos Born novels, and returned to it three years later in 2015. On March 9, 2018, he announced he was once again leaving BioWare to focus on his independent work.

Mass Effect was named Game of the Year, in addition to receiving four other awards at the 2008 Elan Awards.[6]

Karpyshyn moved to Austin, Texas to help with Star Wars: The Old Republic.[7] He left BioWare in February 2012 to focus more on his own projects.[1] He returned to BioWare 3 years later in 2015 to focus on the post-release development of SWTOR.[8] He later started working on Anthem, a new game developed by Bioware.[9] On March 9, 2018, he announced he would once again be leaving BioWare to work on other things, including more original novels, co-creating a sci-fi graphic novel, and freelance gaming work.[10]

In March 2000, Karpyshyn appeared on an episode of Jeopardy!, finishing third.[7][11] He is a fan of the NFL's San Diego Chargers.[12] He believes that in the NFL, Bill Belichick is most likely to follow the ways of the Sith, and Peyton Manning is the most likely to be a Jedi.[13] Though his musical tastes lean more to what he calls "mainstream alternative", such as the Foo Fighters and Green Day, he also enjoys Sage Francis' song "The Best of Times". He prefers to write at night without any music playing.[14]